“I laughed, I cried, I got a hard-on.”   -  John Schneider,  “Global Village” KPFK/Pacifica

 “At first, more fun than a barrel of monkeys - real or hallucinated - but ultimately, a story with real pathos.  Martin Perlich is a true original--I loved the wild and woolly ride."  --- Sandra Tsing Loh  satirist, Host of NPR’s The Loh Life author Depth Takes a Holiday, A Year in Van Nuys

  Wild Times and Tender Moments, November 26, 2006
By Peter A. Balaskas - Editor, Ex Machina Press (LA, CA) - See all my reviews

"Martin Perlich's writing has the biting outragiousness of Jack Kerouac and the contemplative sensitivity of JD Salinger. Funny, sureal, visual and tender, Perlich's story captures the LA of the 70's like a literary snapshot. An excellent writer and a thought-provoking book."

"For anyone who survived the 70s, or is curious about them, THE WILD TIMES is the perfect guide book. Writing in the jingle-jangle urgency of the decade, Martin Perlich has unerringly captured the birds-in-a-storm whimsy of a journey navigated on too many drugs and too little sense of direction but precisely the ideal combination of curiosity and lust, abandon and longing. What a ride the 70s were and what a funny, sad and compelling chronicle this novel is!"
 ---  Ernest Thompson,  "On Golden Pond", "1969"

 “... feverishly excavates the Boomer experience, exposing not only its tangled roots, but the complicated relationship between those roots and their perplexing, occasionally problematic, harvest." --- Susan Key, author American Mavericks

Mitchell Hertz starts out as an amiable, irrepressible Holden Caulfield-style youth and transmogrifies into a lotus-eating, truth-seeking, long-haired hippie gonzo Trotskyist.  He's a free spirit and a willing slave to good drugs, willing vaginas, and to the ever present heartbeat of music. There would be no Sixties without such transcendently stoned mythological figures. Perlich plants his lovable Satyr in the ever shifting sands of the Culture Industry--straight jobs, where a man can get Income, or even better, Fired.  Unafraid to follow his protagonist through the rat holes of failure or down any number of other, more sensual tunnels o' love, Perlich weaves his antic tale with great candor and comic twistedness.” --- Rita Valencia, author of White House Dogs, Style Vs. Content, and other plays and stories.

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